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The podcast series ‘The Road Less Travelled’ aims at highlighting the careers and career paths that are possible after a master in human rights.
Each podcast is an in-depth and honest conversation between the host Véronique Lerch and a graduate of a human rights programme who has ‘taken that road less travelled’. The interviews focus on the learnings from those unusual paths and the pieces of advice that our guests want to give to other graduates wanting to engage in similar professions or anybody else interested in following such career paths.
A conversation with Dumiso Gatscha
The first podcast episode of the series features Dumiso Gatsha who works at the nexus of human rights and sustainable development.
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A conversation with Iryna Matviyishyn
The second podcast of the series ‘The Road Less Traveled’ features Iryna Matviyishyn who is currently working as an independent journalist and producer based in Lviv, Ukraine.
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A conversation with David Nnanna Ikpo
The third guest of our podcast series ‘The Road Less Traveled’ is David Nnanna Ikpo, a Nigerian lawyer, storyteller, researcher and filmmaker. He finds all his passions quite complementary and despite the growing acceptance of intersciplinary teams, he still finds that he is stuck with assessments that are incomplete and stay in the limbo.
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A conversation with Niamh Walsh
In the fourth podcast, Niamh Walsh, a leadership and career coach, looks back at what brought her to coaching and how her human rights education underpins her work. The conversation is rich in advice and will give you an idea of what rights-based coaching might look like.
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A conversation with Vanessa Trapani
The guest of our fifth episode is Vanessa Trapani. She is a graduate of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation and she currently works as an independent consultant for the social innovation of SMEs and co-founded an NGO called Sloworking. Her passion for diversity brought her to the European master in human rights and then led her to an eclectic path.
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A conversation with Marina Schupac
The guest of our sixth episode is Marina Shupac, an award-winning journalist, self-shooting documentary filmmaker and human rights practitioner from Moldova. Since she was a child, she wanted to be a journalist but was also already taking a stand on injustice due to her family’s commitment to a more just society in Moldova.
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A conversation with Marco Blanco
The guest of our 7th episode, Marco Blanco, is the founder and CEO of Child Safeguard, an award-winning consultancy firm, that helps organisations implement strategies to prevent harm and abuse to children through the implementation of Child Safe Best Practices. From a young age, Marco had a strong interest in human rights and sense for social justice through his volunteer work.
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A conversation with Sinead Duffy
The guest in this episode is Sinead Duffy, a graduate of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation, who founded Yogandha, a range of multi-awarded meditative oils. For her primary degree, she chose to study philosophy out of interest for ethics and morality, modalities of thoughts, concepts of existence and all aspects of the human condition. She then took a meandering route from philosophy to human rights.
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A conversation with Godfrey Odongo
The guest of episode 9 of our podcast is Godfrey Odongo, a human rights graduate from GC Africa, currently working as Senior Program Officer with the Human Rights Program at Wellspring Philanthropic Fund in New York.
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A conversation with Barbora Vàgnerovà
The guest of this episode is wearing many hats: Barbora Vágnerová, a graduate of the European Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation, created her own company offering education opportunities for health care professionals, works for a foundation supporting palliative care for children and is a jazz singer.
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A conversation with Laura Maria Calderòn Cuevas
The guest of this episode is Laura Maria the creative alumna of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation who conceived the jingle for the podcasts The Road Less Traveled. Laura grew up in a family who enjoyed the arts and encouraged her passion for music and dance. She started being aware very young of the inequalities in Colombia. She understood the power of singing and bringing people together, while working in New York at the UN during the day and playing in a band at night.
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A conversation with Lydia Malmedie
The guest of our 12th episode is Lydia Malmedie, a graduate of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation who currently works as Deputy head of the LGBTI Unit at the Berlin State Ministry for Justice, Diversity and Anti-discrimination. Sub-national level is getting more and more important with several networks of cities and public authorities working on different human rights issues. Lydia talks about the leverage that one can have at the local level.
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A conversation with Thomas Coombes
The guest of this episode has let his curiosity and constant questioning about the best way to have an impact on human rights guide his career. This less usual path led him to focus those last years on Hope-based communications because he strongly believes in our shared humanity and the need to stand in solidarity.
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A conversation with Moana Genevey
The guest of this episode is Moana, a Senior Policy Officer at Equinet at day, and a stand-up comedian at night. By doing the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation, she had for the first time a sense of belonging and a sense of legitimacy. The master created career opportunities working for human rights (e.g., paid traineeships, work as co-Secretary General of the EMAlumni Association, network of people and opportunities…).
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A conversation with Kosta Karajashyan
The guest of this episode is a Bulgarian-Armenian director, choreographer, producer, and writer exploring empathy through movement and storytelling. His dancing career started with ballroom dancing when he was 5. While he was studying dance in New-York, he made a 6-minute dance short film, Waiting for Color, about the violations of human rights of LGBT people in Chechnya.
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A conversation with Inge Jacobs
The guest of this episode, Inge Jacobs, is currently leading sustainability for Mars Food, focusing both on human rights and livelihoods as well as climate and water use in Mars Food supply chains. In her job, she uses not only the lenses of human rights but also the ones from sustainability, gender and ecology. She keeps looking at new opportunities and networks, and kept on learning, adding a master in public health to her Master in Human Rights.
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9/9/2022
Università degli Studi di Padova
Centro di Ateneo per i Diritti Umani
"Antonio Papisca"
Complesso Universitario
Via Beato Pellegrino, 28
35137 Padova
Tel 049 827 1813 / 1817
Posta elettronica
centro.dirittiumani@unipd.it
Posta certificata
centro.dirittiumani@pec.unipd.it
Università degli Studi di Padova
Centro di Ateneo per i Diritti Umani
"Antonio Papisca"
Complesso Universitario
Via Beato Pellegrino, 28
35137 Padova
Tel 049 827 1813 / 1817
Posta elettronica
centro.dirittiumani@unipd.it
Posta certificata
centro.dirittiumani@pec.unipd.it
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